Neon Noir by Woody Haut

Neon Noir by Woody Haut

Neon Noir, the follow-up to Woody Haut's highly regarded Pulp Culture, brings the story of American crime fiction and film uptodate. From the Kennedy assassination to the Vietnam War and Watergate, through Reaganomics to Irangate and Whitewater, Neon Noir is a roller-coaster ride through the American nightmare. Haut investigates the dark side of America through the work of crime writers such as James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley, James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, James Sallis, George Pelecanos, Charles Willeford, Jerome Charyn, Sara Paretsky, Vicki Hendricks, KC Constantine, George V Higgins and James Crumley. Mapping the fissures and scars of America's psychogeography, its morally ambiguous shadowlands, Neon Noir also considers the difference between past and present hardboilers, the impact of war and journalism on noirists, the portrayal of cities, the aesthetics of crime fiction, and the changing relationship between the books and the films. Like Pulp Culture, Neon Noir is set to become the reference book on its subject.

?Razor-sharp dissections of American Crime Fiction by the author of the acclaimed Pulp Culture? BBM ?An invaluable book on an ever-fascinating subject? Time Out ?Neon Noir is essential for anyone who is in love with the literature it examines - and a revelation for those who are not? Uncut

Born in Detroit in 1945, Woody Haut grew up in Pasadena, California, attended San Francisco State University, and has lived in Britain since the early 1970s. Presently a London-based journalist, he has worked as a college lecturer, taxi-cab driver, record shop assistant, cinema programmer and Labour Editor for Rolling Stock magazine (US).

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ISBN 13	9781852425470
ISBN 10	1852425474
Title	Neon Noir
Author	Woody Haut
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	1999-01-28
Number of pages	288
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